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* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
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1971 and Apollo
In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.
The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Service Module on the return trip from the Moon.
* 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
Apollo flights 18 and 19 were cancelled in September 1970, but Schmitt was assigned in August 1971 to fly on the last lunar mission, Apollo 17, replacing Joe Engle as Lunar Module Pilot.
The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
* 1971 – Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo " J-Mission ", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17 ) during 1971 and 1972.
The U. S. Apollo program | Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle from Apollo 15 on the moon in 1971
Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon ; these were the Bench Crater meteorite ( Apollo 12, 1969 ) and the Hadley Rille meteorite ( Apollo 15, 1971 ).
For instance, in 2008 a laboratory device which ejects and identifies particles found small amounts of the compound in the inside of volcanic rock brought from Moon to Earth by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.
On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.
The Apollo 15 spacecraft landed safely despite a parachute line failure in 1971.
1971 and program
Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.
During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.
In 1971 Shirley McNaughton started a pioneer program at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC ), aimed to children with cerebral palsy, from the approach of augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ).
In 1971, the BIOT Commissioner ordered the extermination of feral dogs following the departure of the last plantation workers, and the program continued through 1975, when the last feral dog was observed and shot.
During the show's peak in popularity, Hee Haw often competed in syndication against The Lawrence Welk Show, a long-running ABC program which had also been canceled in 1971, also in an attempt to purge the networks of older demographic-leaning programs.
Its 21 years in TV syndication ( 1971 – 1992 ) was the record for a U. S. program, until Soul Train surpassed it in 1993.
The United States restored its aid program in 1971.
In 1971, the institute initiated an independent academic program in Computer Science and Engineering, leading to M. Tech.
* 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
* 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, after the theft of many internal documents stolen from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI.
* 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70 % of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
Another program in Canada, the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project, ran from 1971 to 1985.
By 1971, 250, 000 Cubans made use of this program.
An important component of the Fourth Five-Year Plan ( 1971 – 75 ) was a major development program for the telecommunications system.
SMTP can trace its roots to two implementations described in 1971, the Mail Box Protocol, which has been disputed to actually have been implemented, but is discussed in RFC 196 and other RFCs, and the SNDMSG program, which, according to RFC 2235, Ray Tomlinson of BBN " invents " for TENEX computers the sending of mail across the ARPANET.
The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.
* November 6 – Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States ( by 1971 250, 000 Cubans take advantage of this program ).
A subset called Micro-Planner was implemented by Gerry Sussman, Eugene Charniak and Terry Winograd Charniak, and Winograd 1971 and was used in Winograd's natural-language understanding program SHRDLU, Eugene Charniak's story understanding work, Thorne McCarty's work on legal reasoning, and some other projects.
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